First Appearance: Earth 2 (2012) #2
The "Apokorats" as they came to be known on Earth 2, are giant rodent-like creatures that bare similar ressemblance to their Prime Earth counterpart of normal rats. They had crossed into Earth 2 from Apokolips and infested many places, moving inland. They may also carry virus from Apokolips. They also act as steads for the Apokolips army.
While Jay Garrick is testing his powers that he had just recieved from Mercury, he overhears a man crying out for his help as both he and his wife are being attacked by Apokorats. Jay comments that he did not realise that the Apokorats hd made it as far as Lansing, desciding to save them. He uses his speed to collect them all before banging the lid until the can begins to crush, telling the couple that they should go to the hospital as they could have been infected by them.
First Appearance: Justice League (2011) #3
Apokolips is it's very own planet/ universe in the Multiverse, located in the "Sphere of the Gods." It is the fiery and hellish home world of Darkseid and those New Gods that were his followers of evil.
While Victor Stone is undergoing his transformation into Cyborg, he sees a vision of the planet with Darkseid standing on a mountain, looking at the red setting sun, burning earth and swarming Parademons.
Justice League (2011) #5: When Bruce Wayne allows himself to be captured by Parademons, he is taken to an Apokoliptian Command Tower that had been erected in the waters of Metropolis, where he manages to knock down his captor and cross through a boom tube leading to Apokolips.
Justice League (2011) #6: Batman sneaks into an Apokoliptian Lab, where he discovers Steppenwolf and Desaad torturing Superman, who had been brought to them due to the fact that the "Parademon Hives" did not have the capability of cutting Kryptonian flesh.
Cyborg remotely opens all the Mother Boxes, creating Boom Tubes that would send both Darkseid and the Parademons back to Earth. However the Boom Tubes also send Desaad and Steppenwolf from the planet, before Batman and Superman escape. The planet is eventually sealed off when Cyborg closes the Boom Tubes and destroys the portal, hindering the return of Darkseid, but not completely cutting of his way to return back to Prime Earth.
First Appeared: Justice League (2011) #1
The Mother Boxes are special technological devices that originate from the planet Apokolips, which are owned by all residents of the planet who work for Darkseid. They uses the "ping" language to communicate with each other and have the capacity to release and operate Boom Tubes to reach through into different dimensions to aid Darkseid's search for his daughter and overall control of the Multiverse. They use technology that is unknown to the Guardians of the Universe.
A lone Parademon escaped from Batman and Green Lantern after it destroyed G.C.P.D helicopters and fled to the sewers, where it decided to fuse a Mother Box to the wall. Just seconds after the Parademon primed the Mother Box, Green Lantern flies at it under the impression that it is a bomb. The Parademon blows itself up to kill Lantern and Batman, in order that the Mother Box will be protected from harm as it is able to withstand the blast. However the heroes survive and after a failed scan of the box decide to take it with them to Metropolis in search of Superman, who they think will know about the presence of the Mother Box on Earth and in Gotham.
